Four hundred and seventieth chapters rush to Luoyang
Ye Qing gave the order, and the military formations were mobilized. The towering city walls in the north to keep out the cold and enemies, the dark weather and the Taoist spirit fog extremely shielded reconnaissance. Especially when Dong Zhuo lost the support of Taiping Taoist priests, he was originally
The dilemma has been torn apart by a glimmer of hope.
The southeast wind blew, the flags fluttered, and the uniforms flashed quietly and coldly in the moonlight.
The thick city gate opened slowly and silently, and the large group of troops marched silently out of the city. After a brief hidden march towards Dong Zhuo's camp, Ye Huolei "bang" broke through the camp wall, signaling the raid.
Murderous intent was everywhere, arrows were flying across the sky, there were sounds of swords and shields being drawn, people roared and horses roared, and the shouts of killing from both sides suddenly rang out.
"Haha, big-eared thief, there were no regular messages in the city just now, so I knew you would come to attack at night." At this time, from a high platform, Dong Zhuo's laughter appeared in the night sky, as harsh as a night owl.
"Night attack, you are wrong." Ye Qing's eyes were calm, and various orders were issued quietly and smoothly, dispatching the 6,000 red armor cavalry of his headquarters, 5,000 Jizhou cavalry, and the 8,000 cavalry of the newly annexed princes.
Thirty thousand riders, under the moonlight, the black iron flow is like waves, and the cold light flows in patches.
It is equipped with bright armor, steel sabers, and a batch of the best cavalry crossbows selected from the arsenals of various states. In terms of equipment, except for the infantry Rhubarb crossbow, it is the best in the entire army. It can also be said that this
Crown of Time Cavalry
"I have always relied on strength and vowed to remove all obstacles."
"I order, charge..." If it were an unnatural world, Ye Qing would never do this, but this world is getting closer and closer to the manifestation of Taoism, and now he has ascended to the Temple of Heaven, accepted part of the destiny, and inherited the imperial virtues of the Han Dynasty.
most important thing.
At this time, Qianqian stretched out his hand.
"Boom" hundreds of green vines spanned a thousand meters, pulling out large pieces and swarming the cavalry, clearing a bloody path that was neither wide nor narrow. When the enemy was unable to compete with Taoism, the battlefield lethality of the real person was revealed.
undoubtedly
Guo Si was shocked and hurriedly stayed away under the protection of his personal guards and a small number of Taoist priests.
"Dong Zhuo isn't here? I thought he was lured here." Ye Qing felt slightly regretful. He once again confirmed the distribution of the Xiliang army's troops from Qianqian's secret message, and swung his sword towards the west: "Kill"
"Shooting" According to the plan, each cavalry detachment of 1,000 people led by each general fired with crossbows, and was supplemented by charging into the formation.
Discharging maximum firepower in a short period of time is normal in earth wars, but now it can only be used by the army during the heyday of the Han Dynasty. Even in recent decades, when the national power has declined, it has gradually become unable to use it. When it breaks out, everyone is shocked -
—So this is the ferocious power of the elite Han cavalry that once dominated the Northern Desert?
At this time, immediately after the first wave of impact, the second wave, the third wave, the fourth wave... Each wave of charges was accompanied by a rain of arrows like a blizzard, using crossbows to mess with the enemy, and lances.
Clear the way.
"Kill" Zhao Yun charged with the cavalry. He clearly felt the urgency of his lord, and he had an understanding of it.
"Boom" a huge momentum was transmitted from the night sky, and the pressure was overwhelming for a moment, almost suffocating the enemies in front.
"Kill, open the way for my Lord." Amidst the sound of huge horse hooves, the earth trembled, and under the dim starlight, the blurred outline exuded indescribable murderous intent.
This was the time when Lu Bu once dominated the world and was victorious in every battle, but at this time, Zhao Yun used it.
The spear in his hand shattered the air blocking the front, and a sharp roar enveloped the nearby area. There was only a muffled sound, and the blood and flesh of the enemy soldiers who intercepted him suddenly spattered.
Screams, the muffled sound of swords piercing the human body, the sound of blood splashing... For a moment, thousands of soldiers on the battlefield slowed down and were absorbed in Zhao Yun's mind.
The movements of everyone within a radius of tens of meters were analyzed one by one, and there was no hiding the past.
"Killing" Zhao Yun passed through the enemy formation. With every movement, a soldier was killed, blood splattered, it was simply a massacre...
"Has it reached the level of the Battle of Changbanpo in the novel?" Ye Qing thought to himself, whipped his whip vigorously, and laughed loudly: "Thief Dong, there is no need for you to give it away."
Thirty thousand cavalry braved the so-called ambush and broke through, disappearing into the western night in an instant.
That is the direction of Luoyang... His goal is still Luoyang
Dong Zhuo's heart sank when he saw it in the main camp.
"It's been a quarter of an hour. Why haven't the two Taoist groups to the east arrived? Contact me again at Taiping Road in the city." Holding back his anger and fear, he looked back and loudly asked the few remaining Taoist priests.
"The golden light just now sealed the escape method, and the official road was deliberately blocked by the Liu thief camp. The two Taoist priests in the east did not dare to rush into the camp at night. They had just detoured from the south hillside, and they would be able to do it in half a moment.
I rushed to Taiping Road in the city...still no reply."
Several Taoist priests were sweating, thinking that if Liu Bei dared to go out of the city, the internal troubles would be eliminated and everyone would die... There were five real people there, and even a Yinshen real person.
Dong Zhuo also thought of this, his face turned livid, he glanced at the generals who were bowing their heads, and suppressed a burst of anger in his heart: "This is all plains, the cavalry will go up and bite me, block in front and behind, press from left to right, no way."
Give him a rest and he will become exhausted.”
"Whoever dares to avoid the formation will be killed."
Li Cui and Guo Si were knocked down, and they were the defeated generals who escaped from Hulao. At this time, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and take the orders, and the cavalry quickly rushed out.
"Wen You, prepare to break camp with the main force tomorrow morning and cooperate with the magician group to kill Ye Qing... at least destroy this elite force before reaching Luoyang City."
"Yes." Li Ru looked a little weak, but he still responded and went to make arrangements.
The Taoist group of Taiping Taoist priests headed by Yin Shen Zhenren was wiped out to everyone's surprise. They lost most of their Taoist power. The most critical loss was not the power itself, but the incomplete battlefield command system, with only a few dedicated Taoist priests.
Arranged to be maintained by the direct lineage troops, the defense is sufficient, but the offense is actually insufficient.
This hasty preparation was not so much an ambush as it was delaying the critical defense until Cao and Sun's magicians arrived at the scene in an attempt to combat Liu Jun's light cavalry adventure. Unfortunately, Liu Da'er seemed to see that his army's attack was insufficient and did not attack.
He moved lightly, not lingering at all, and had no intention of trying to kill Grand Master Dong.
This made Li Ru feel as if he had missed a punch again. A feeling of discouragement appeared in his heart, and he suddenly shuddered... This feeling is a taboo for strategists, how could it happen?
Li Ru felt full of disgust, walked behind a military tent, coughed for a while, and released his covering hand. He saw that his hands were full of blood. He suddenly stood in the shadow of the military tent, and his heart felt gloomy for a moment.
Is this a backlash?
Already in the small plain of Luoyang, the 200-mile vast wilderness stretches as far as the eye can see under the moonlight, but also looks gray under the long drought. Only a few crops are dotted with yellow and green. The bright colors fade under the moonlight, dividing all changes into light and dark.
Color, which makes any enemy's military deployment very conspicuous.
At this time, several groups of Xiliang cavalry were seen sneaking around and outflanking Liu Jiajun's crossbow formation from more than ten miles away, trying to flank Liu Jiajun's crossbow formation. This movement was immediately reported to Ye Qing by Qianqian.
When the fire was ten miles closer, Huang Zhong stared at the cavalry, and with the eyesight of a master of archery, he could distinguish the left-hand clothing and strange shaved hair: "Those are Qiang cavalry."
Guan Yu frowned when he heard this: "Dong Zhuo's core team is still the pro-army cavalry. He originally had 6,000 and asked the lord to cut off half of them. In the past two years, he gradually saved up to 5,000. However, they were temporarily recruited from the hundreds of Qiang tribes who moved to Chang'an.
There are a lot of cavalry, but they have no experience in fighting a large army, and they only have a sense of bravery."
The main body of the Xiliang cavalry is the traditional light cavalry of Hu Qi, and Hu Qi has another nickname called "Controlling Strings". At that time, the Xiongnu Kingdom was said to have millions of strings, but it was completely destroyed by two major blows from the Former Han Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty.
Due to the high cost, the number of armored cavalry in each army is very small, and they are all used as key assault forces. Even the traditional light cavalry of the Han family are equipped with crossbows and swords and guns. One of the usual tactics is to use crossbows to shoot arrows to disrupt the enemy.
Then impact again.
Hu Qi obtained a crossbow made in Han Dynasty. Compared with the original simple bow and arrow, it was a shotgun exchange for a cannon. However, it also depends on who he is facing. Ye Qing's former army formed an arrow formation with 20,000 large yellow crossbows to focus the fire and charge forward. The cavalry crossbow has a natural range disadvantage.
It shows that even the bravest Qiang soldiers among them did not dare to attack head-on, and could only seek loopholes around the sides.
Ye Qing knew that this type of cavalry was a tradition of the Han and Qiang tribes. From the hundreds of thousands of group firepower of the Qin Empire's mounted crossbowmen (similar to the dragoons in the musket era who dismounted and fired on foot, the horses were only used as a means of long-range firepower and rapid maneuverability), to later
The same is true for the Mongolian cavalry.
It's not that heavy cavalry is hard to use. From a tactical point of view, light cavalry with crossbows or bows can guarantee both attack power and mobility. When encountering the so-called iron can, just circle around a few times to drain the stamina of the troops and horses, and then move forward with the heavy crossbow.
In concentrated fire, with the power of Han-made crossbows or compound bows, any heavy armor is dangerous for more than ten steps. However, this is only an extreme hypothetical situation. In actual use, the advantage of medium and heavy cavalry in impact is the norm.
From a strategic point of view, it is another situation. Since the opening of the unique fertile virgin land of the Loess Plateau, the human and manufacturing resources of the Han and Qiang tribes have been too abundant, and the crossbow (which is a heavy weapon) has been regarded as a forbidden weapon by the West.
Crossbows) are all made for free. In a group war involving tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions, cost is king. Quantity crushes everything. In large-scale native fortification confrontations, there is no room for heavy cavalry.
Local restraint in a group charge rarely affects the overall situation, which makes elite heavy cavalry the icing on the cake rather than providing help in a timely manner.
"They are coming." Qianqian's consciousness spanned the battlefield for more than ten miles, and he smoothly dispatched dozens of magicians to rush over.
Fortunately, most of the 30,000 Xiliang cavalry captured from Gongxian County were not good at shooting. It was a clumsy strategy to hit them at the same time in the face of the extremely high armor wearing rate of our own army.
But they had the advantage of horse power. This kind of cavalry was advancing very quickly at a steady trot, but it was still slightly inferior to the Xiliang horses. After advancing for more than ten miles in the middle of the night, they were finally caught up and began to take on the fire.
After the first wave of arrows covered each other, a huge collision broke out.
At this time, under the moonlight, the bright red torches spread like dragons, forming a complex entanglement of several, dozen, or even dozens of fire dragons on the dark land. I saw that each time the fire dragons entangled fiercely, they would annihilate each other. Hundreds of thousands of fire dragons were annihilated.
The red light was the cavalry of the two armies who were killed or fell off their horses, but no one dared to look back at it at this time.
Thirty thousand cavalry are advancing westward with irresistible momentum...and a large number of enemy cavalry are also entangled, with twice the strength, they are constantly moving forward to blockade, attacking and blocking from both sides, but both are raining arrows like water.
The snow-like water melted under the cover, barely hindering Ye Qing's westward march.